Wages at the regionals, where smaller, narrow-body aircraft prevail, are lower than wages for Flight Attendants at the âmajorsâ or mainline carriers. The Flight Attendant pay scale at American Eagle Airlines for example, tops out at $33 per hour after 13 years of service. Needless to say commuter Flight Attendants probably arenât as jet-lagged as their mainline counterparts who do overseas flying.
January 22, 1913. Tokyo, Japan. Tokugawa Yoshinobu, original name Tokugawa Keiki (born Oct. 28, 1837, Edo, Japanâdied Jan. 22, 1913, Tokyo) the last Tokugawa shogun of Japan, who helped make the Meiji Restoration (1868)âthe overthrow of the shogunate and restoration of power to the emperorâa relatively peaceful transition.
In 1192, a military leader called Minamoto Yoritomo had the Emperor appoint him shogun; he set up his own capital in Kamakura, far to the east of the Emperor's capital in Kyoto, near present-day Tokyo. For almost 700 years after that, Japan was ruled mainly by a succession of shoguns, whose titles were usually passed on from father to son. Sometimes the shogun's family would become weak, and a rebel leader would seize power from them, after which he would be named shogun and would start a new ruling family. Tokugawa Ieyasu, who founded the shogunate in 1603 in present-day Tokyo.